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Beto O'Rourke
Beto O'Rourke
stated on October 16, 2019 an interview
"To be clear, I’m not talking about confiscating anybody’s guns."
False
October 21, 2019
Mick Mulvaney
Mick Mulvaney
stated on October 17, 2019 a news conference
Says Donald Trump "will not be profiting" from the G-7 summit meeting to be held at Trump’s Doral resort.
False
October 18, 2019
Eric Trump
Eric Trump
stated on October 15, 2019 a Fox News appearance
"When my father became commander in chief of this country, we got out of all international business."
Pants on Fire!
By Bill McCarthy • October 18, 2019
Rand Paul
Rand Paul
stated on October 11, 2019 an interview on ABC's "The View"
"Most people below $50,000 don’t pay any income tax. The top 1 percent in our country pay 40%."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • October 17, 2019
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on October 16, 2019 answering questions from reporters
"The Kurds are much safer right now."
False
October 16, 2019
Andrew Yang
Andrew Yang
stated on September 21, 2019 Iowa Steak Fry speech
Says about universal basic income, "Thomas Paine was for it at our founding ... Martin Luther King, champion in the ‘60s, called it a guaranteed minimum income for all Americans… It passed the U.S. House of Representatives twice in 1971."
Mostly True
By Miriam Valverde • October 16, 2019
Ilhan Omar
Ilhan Omar
stated on October 12, 2019 a tweet
"The 1% is paying less in taxes than everyone else."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • October 16, 2019
Julián Castro
Julián Castro
stated on October 15, 2019 a debate
"Ohio, Michigan, and Pennsylvania actually in the latest jobs data have lost jobs, not gained them."
False
By Louis Jacobson • October 16, 2019
Pete Buttigieg
Pete Buttigieg
stated on October 15, 2019 a Democratic presidential debate
Americans "say that what they want is a choice" to join a single-payer system like Medicare rather than ending private insurance.
True
By Louis Jacobson • October 16, 2019
Elizabeth Warren
Elizabeth Warren
stated on October 10, 2019 a Facebook ad
"If Trump tries to lie in a TV ad, most networks will refuse to air it. But Facebook just cashes Trump’s checks."
Mostly False
By Amy Sherman • October 15, 2019
Roger Stone
Roger Stone
stated on September 28, 2018 a Facebook post
As mayor of Newark, N.J., Cory Booker "stole $600,000 from a city water authority and laundered it through his law firm."
False
By Daniel Funke • October 14, 2019
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on October 9, 2019 an ad
"Fact: Joe Biden pressured Ukraine to fire its prosecutor .... Fact: the prosecutor said he was forced out for leading a corruption probe into Hunter Biden's company. Fact: Democrats want to impeach President Trump for discussing this investigation with Ukraine's President."  
False
By Amy Sherman • October 11, 2019
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on October 5, 2019 a tweet
"The first so-called second hand information ‘Whistleblower’ got my phone conversation almost completely wrong."
Pants on Fire!
By Jon Greenberg • October 9, 2019
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on October 6, 2019 a tweet
Says Joe Biden "said he never spoke to the Ukrainian company, and then the picture came out where he was playing golf with the company boss and Hunter" Biden.
False
By Daniel Funke • October 8, 2019
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on October 7, 2019 a statement to the press
Minneapolis "city government preemptively informed the Target Center that it would be responsible for $530,000 in security and other costs" related to a Trump rally, "more than 26 times the estimated security costs for a 2009 Target Center health care rally held by President Barack Obama."
True
By Amy Sherman • October 8, 2019
Adam Schiff
Adam Schiff
stated on September 17, 2019 an interview on MSNBC
"We have not spoken directly with the whistleblower."
False
By Bill McCarthy • October 4, 2019
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on September 21, 2019 a campaign appearance in Iowa
"We’re no longer the wealthiest middle class in the world."
Mostly True
By Amy Sherman • October 4, 2019
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on September 30, 2019 a tweet
"Longstanding whistleblower rules (were changed) just before submittal of the fake whistleblower report."  
False
By Jon Greenberg • October 1, 2019
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on September 22, 2019 a speech
"For the first time in history, most new hires of prime working age are minorities and women."
Half-True
By Miriam Valverde • September 27, 2019
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on July 25, 2019 a phone call
"A lot of people are talking about" the removal of a "very fair prosecutor" in Ukraine.
False
By John Kruzel • September 26, 2019
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